
Acting
Vic Silayan
Born 1928-12-31 · Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Acting credits
8.3A young womans gets married but her possessive father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Kisapmata
1981
4.4A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
Daughters of Satan
1972
7.7An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.
Lilet
1971
5.5American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
5.1A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.
Project: Kill
1976
6.6During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
The Longest Hundred Miles
1967
4.1After being bitten by a cobra in the Philipines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.
Night of the Cobra Woman
1972
6.5A story about a Filipino guerilla Sargent who was tasked to ambush a company of Japanese soldiers staying at a convent.
The Ravagers
1965
6.2The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
No Man Is an Island
1962
6.4Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
The Children of An Lac
1980
5.5After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
Pacific Inferno
1979
10.0A divorced couple fight over their son.
I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa
1986
8.0Joseph Estrada takes on drugs and organized crime around Manila's Chinatown.
Manila Dragnet
1973
NRA story of a man who joined the guerilla in World War 2.
Pilipinas Kong Mahal
1965
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Katawang Alabok
1978
6.9When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.
Of the Flesh
1983
5.7When a military plane is shot down in uninhabited jungle in an unknown Asian country, the men aboard have to contend with a mysterious house which, once entered, proves difficult to leave.
Paradise of Terror
1965
4.8A martial arts instructor sets out to rescue his girlfriend who is being held for ransom by a South American warlord.
Tigershark
1987
7.5The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Five segments with an all-star cast, directed by five directors with a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Blood and Love on a Piece of Land
1975
5.9A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
Child of Sorrow
1956
5.8Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.
The Last Reunion
1980
9.0"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.
I am Blushing
1981
7.7Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.
Huk in a New Life
1953
The film tells a story of large rural families suffering from economic insecurity in a remote part of the town of Magdalena, Laguna, where major life events are punctuated by the tollling of the church bells, and the coastal community of Dalahican, Quezon. Both places are homes of large families dealing with the reality of poverty.
The Bells of San Jose
1974